Bucke

With Ohio's March 4th primary looming as the possible make-it-or-break it battleground for the Democratic nomination, Senator Barack Obama has landed his campaign A-Team three weeks ahead of the Bucke ...

Beverly Davis: Ohio: Obama Lands His A-Team 2008

With Ohio's March 4th primary looming as the possible make-it-or-break it battleground for the Democratic nomination, Senator Barack Obama has landed his campaign A-Team three weeks ahead of the Bucke ...

Beverly Davis: Ohio: Obama Lands His A-Team 2008

On September 29, 1890 Whitman enclosed a rough sketch of his tomb in a letter to his literary executor, Richard Maurice Bucke.

'Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman 2006

Many religious traditions describe them, as do thousands of intelligent individuals like Bucke.

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

Bucke, who had just turned thirty-six, occasionally had brief but severe bouts of panic, which he diagnosed as “nervous dyspepsia.”

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

Bucke experienced his own "illumination" at age 35.

Unity of the universe Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

Bucke (1837-1902), an interesting character, rugged adventurer, medical doctor, and "alienist" (psychiatrist) helped set up an "insane asylum" in Canada with quite progressive "treatment" for its time.

Unity of the universe Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

For many years, I have been investigating transcendent experiences like those reported by Bucke.

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

But when Bucke was overtaken by the flame-colored cloud, he felt “a sense of exaltation, of immense joyousness…followed by an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe”:

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

Bucke, for instance, was a social Darwinist, and in his biography he wrote that even as a child he never “accepted the doctrines of the Christian church.”

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006